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Hat

Photo: Paul Macapia

Hat

20th century

Cotton, crocheted with cowrie shells, indigo dye
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
Diam.: 9 1/16 in.
Gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company
81.17.759
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, African Panoplies: Art for Rulers, Traders, Hunters, and Priests, Apr. 21 - Aug. 14, 1988.
Published ReferencesMcClusky, Pamela. Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, in association with Princeton University Press, 2002; pp. 131, 134-5, reproduced pl. 74 [not in exhibition].

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